diff --git a/appearance.json b/appearance.json
index 263c859..f42749d 100644
--- a/appearance.json
+++ b/appearance.json
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
     "vim-cursor",
     "text-normalize",
     "code-blocks",
-    "minimal-heading-colors"
+    "minimal-heading-colors",
+    "minimal-mono-grid"
   ],
   "accentColor": ""
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/snippets/minimal-heading-colors.css b/snippets/minimal-heading-colors.css
deleted file mode 100644
index f7c5fb5..0000000
--- a/snippets/minimal-heading-colors.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-body.colorful-headings {
-  --h1-color: var(--color-purple);
-  --h2-color: var(--color-purple);
-  --h3-color: var(--color-purple);
-  --h4-color: var(--color-purple);
-  --h5-color: var(--color-purple);
-  --h6-color: var(--color-purple);
-}
diff --git a/snippets/minimal-mono-grid.css b/snippets/minimal-mono-grid.css
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..28da04f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/snippets/minimal-mono-grid.css
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+/* ============================================================
+   Minimal — monospace grid
+   Save to .obsidian/snippets/ and enable in
+   Settings → Appearance → CSS snippets
+   ============================================================ */
+
+/* ---- 1. Font + size variables ------------------------------ */
+body {
+  --my-mono: "iA Writer Mono V", "JetBrains Mono", "Berkeley Mono", var(--font-monospace-default);
+
+  --font-text-theme:      var(--my-mono);
+  --font-monospace-theme: var(--my-mono);
+  --font-text:            var(--my-mono);
+  --font-monospace:       var(--my-mono);
+
+  --code-size: var(--font-text-size);
+
+  --h1-size: 18px;  --h1-weight: 600;
+  --h2-size: 18px;  --h2-weight: 600;
+  --h3-size: 18px;  --h3-weight: 600;
+  --h4-size: 18px;  --h4-weight: 600;
+  --h5-size: 18px;  --h5-weight: 600;
+  --h6-size: 18px;  --h6-weight: 600;
+
+  --h1-variant: normal;  --h2-variant: normal;  --h3-variant: normal;
+  --h4-variant: normal;  --h5-variant: normal;  --h6-variant: normal;
+
+  --h1-font: var(--my-mono);  --h2-font: var(--my-mono);
+  --h3-font: var(--my-mono);  --h4-font: var(--my-mono);
+  --h5-font: var(--my-mono);  --h6-font: var(--my-mono);
+}
+
+/* ---- 2. Heading colors -------------------------------------
+   Must be body.colorful-headings (0,1,1) to beat Minimal's own
+   rule. Delete this block if colorful headings is off.        */
+body.colorful-headings {
+  --h1-color: var(--color-purple);
+  --h2-color: var(--color-purple);
+  --h3-color: var(--color-purple);
+  --h4-color: var(--color-purple);
+  --h5-color: var(--color-purple);
+  --h6-color: var(--color-purple);
+}
+
+/* ---- 3. Catch-all: family + metrics, NEVER size ------------- */
+.markdown-source-view.mod-cm6 .cm-line,
+.markdown-source-view.mod-cm6 .cm-line *,
+.markdown-rendered,
+.markdown-rendered * {
+  font-family: var(--my-mono) !important;
+  letter-spacing: 0 !important;
+  word-spacing: 0 !important;
+  font-variant: normal !important;
+  font-kerning: none !important;
+  font-variant-ligatures: none !important;
+  font-feature-settings: "liga" 0, "clig" 0, "calt" 0, "kern" 0 !important;
+  font-synthesis: none !important;
+  text-rendering: optimizeSpeed;
+}
+
+/* ---- 4. Footnotes: force size back to the grid -------------
+   Scoped so it can't touch headings. This is the piece the
+   catch-all could not do.                                     */
+.cm-s-obsidian .cm-line.HyperMD-footnote,
+.cm-s-obsidian .cm-line.HyperMD-footnote *,
+.cm-s-obsidian span.cm-footref,
+.cm-s-obsidian span.cm-footref.cm-hmd-barelink,
+.cm-s-obsidian span.cm-footref.cm-hmd-barelink.cm-formatting,
+.markdown-rendered .footnotes,
+.markdown-rendered .footnotes *,
+.markdown-rendered sup,
+.markdown-rendered sub,
+.markdown-rendered a.footnote-link {
+  font-size: var(--font-text-size) !important;
+  line-height: var(--line-height-normal) !important;
+  vertical-align: baseline !important;
+}
+
+.markdown-rendered .footnotes ol > li::marker {
+  font-family: var(--my-mono);
+  font-size: var(--font-text-size);
+}
+
+/* ---- 5. Code blocks flush with body text ------------------- */
+.markdown-rendered pre,
+.markdown-rendered pre > code {
+  padding-left: 0;
+  padding-right: 0;
+}
+.markdown-source-view.mod-cm6 .HyperMD-codeblock {
+  padding-left: 0 !important;
+  padding-right: 0 !important;
+}
diff --git a/snippets/text-normalize.css b/snippets/text-normalize.css
index ed9acdb..1ff22a5 100644
--- a/snippets/text-normalize.css
+++ b/snippets/text-normalize.css
@@ -58,3 +58,54 @@ code, pre, .cm-line, .metadata-property-value {
   text-rendering: optimizeSpeed;
 }
 
+/* Footnotes */
+
+/* Reference marker, both views */
+a.footnote-link,
+.cm-s-obsidian span.cm-footref.cm-hmd-barelink,
+.cm-s-obsidian span.cm-footref.cm-hmd-barelink.cm-formatting {
+  font-family: var(--my-mono) !important;
+  font-size: inherit !important;
+  letter-spacing: 0 !important;
+}
+
+/* The <sup> wrapper does the raising, not the <a> */
+.markdown-rendered sup {
+  vertical-align: baseline !important;
+  font-size: inherit !important;
+  line-height: inherit !important;
+}
+
+/* Footnote text, both views */
+.footnotes,
+.footnotes p,
+.footnotes li,
+.cm-s-obsidian .cm-line.HyperMD-footnote {
+  font-family: var(--my-mono) !important;
+  font-size: var(--font-text-size) !important;
+  line-height: var(--line-height-normal);
+  letter-spacing: 0 !important;
+}
+
+/* List numbers -- ::marker accepts font properties */
+.footnotes ol > li::marker {
+  font-family: var(--my-mono);
+  font-size: var(--font-text-size);
+}
+
+
+/* catch-all: normalize every descendant span,
+   without touching size (which would flatten headings) */
+.markdown-source-view.mod-cm6 .cm-line,
+.markdown-source-view.mod-cm6 .cm-line *,
+.markdown-rendered,
+.markdown-rendered * {
+  font-family: var(--my-mono) !important;
+  letter-spacing: 0 !important;
+  word-spacing: 0 !important;
+  font-kerning: none !important;
+  font-variant-ligatures: none !important;
+  font-feature-settings: "liga" 0, "clig" 0, "calt" 0, "kern" 0 !important;
+  font-synthesis: none !important;
+}
+